BREAKING: Federal judge strikes down mask mandates for public transportation

It's about time. Face diapers are worthless.

Big fraudma is mad because the judge wouldn't take their bribes. Good. Finally someone with the balls to not bend the knee to the filthy rich, money motivated entities.

No !!! I lose . Won't catch me on a plane now. Show some courtesy and put a f...ing mask on.

This is great, I’m literally about to board a plane! Still expecting the flight attendants to give me crap but I’ll have the article at hand. Freedom from this idiocy!!!

You know that - despite TSA being the governing body - any airline can still require you to wear a mask, right?

Look into your airlines policy before getting yourself on a no-fly list.

My presumption is most people will still wear a mask voluntarily on planes. We’ve known for decades flying on a plane gets you sick at a higher rate than other places (colds and flus). But my opinion is masks and vaccines should have been voluntary from the first day. If you want to wear a mask, that’s respectable. If not, equally respectable. Same for vaccines. People need to stop caring what others do.

Next emergency/pandemic/etc I think the President should just shrug his shoulders and say:

"Well, people with actual knowledge in this area say X but just go ask rando judge so-and-so in FL. He clearly know better" Its on him.

I don't like framing this as a "heroic decision". Judges should always rule in favor of the constitution, not what is or isn't publicly popular.

Apart from that, is this now the nationwide standard or just for whatever district Florida is part of?

Great, next time there is a public health emergency of any kind, ask this ftard judge and do what he says. OK?

The mandate was going to expire in 2 weeks, anyway.

Posturing, by the judge, and the OP.

Only for mandates to return and make right wingers butthurt when case rates rise again.

Right wingers go home devastated!

will be curious to see the analysis.

for a party that professes not to appoint "activist judges" and to abide by the law, it seems like a stretch that there's any real justification for this decision. the executive's power is really exceptionally broad in this and related realms. see cheney, dick; bush, george; addington, david; and effin john yoo for starters. but tribesmen gonna be tribesmen!

Update: the flight attendants made an announcement on the plane that the mandate was lifted and we can remove our masks if comfortable. Nice try raining on my parade though buddy

“Wearing a mask cleans nothing,” she wrote.

hahaha. not even trying to ground the ruling in reality, huh

You are missing the legal forest for the trees here, mate. In her decision, the judge used a nationwide injunction. Instead of enjoining the mask rule just in her district, she enjoined it across the country.

Under Trump, Dems loved nationwide injunctions since they put a hold on Trump's various shenanigans, while Trumpsters claimed they had no foundation in law. Now, of course, the shoe is on the other foot.

Let the howling begin!

PS Just out of curiosity, since you've obviously read the decision, what exactly is wrong with it?

Whoever might be killed by a contagious bad cold should stay away from other people, period. Not be getting on a plane. Expecting a mask to protect them in that situation only proves either

A) they don't really believe they're at such deadly risk, or

B) they are recklessly staking their life on a porous piece of cloth

I still will be wearing a mask on my flight on Tuesday.